Academics at Prescott College

Marna Hauk, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar, Graduate Mentor, Instructor

Marna Hauk, PhD, serves as a postdoctoral scholar, instructor, and graduate mentor at Prescott College in Sustainability Education, where she instructs and mentors graduate students. She leads graduate courses in Regenerative Design, Climate Change Education, Ecofeminism, Sustainability Education, Facilitating Biomimicry, Environmental Justice, Ecopsychology, and Advanced Research Methods. She also directs the adult learning education programs for the Institute for Earth Regenerative Studies (www.earthregenerative.org) in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Hauk is a 2014-2016 Community Climate Change Fellow of the North American Association of Environmental Education and the EPA. She actively researches, with over ninety peer-reviewed publications and presentations, including publishing with Ecopsychology, the Australian Journal of Environmental Education, the American Educational Research Association, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, International Environmental Review, and the Journal of Sustainability Education. Dr. Hauk is also the co-editor of the practitioner volume, Community Climate Change: A Mosaic of Approaches (2017, Cornell University and the North American Association of Environmental Education). Dr. Hauk’s areas of research include education for climate change and justice, sustainability education, complex systems, regenerative biomimicry, ecopsychology, historical trauma and intergenerational place connection, environmental and food justice, bioculturally responsive curriculum, ecopreneurship and ecosocial incubators, ecofeminism and feminist research, higher educational design, and advanced research methods.

Research

Research Project (2015-2018), Climate Change and Climate Justice Education - Co-Editor, Climate Change Education: A Mosaic of Community Solutions, North American Association of Environmental Education with support from EE Capabity and the EPA; Curated Curriculum as part of the Climate Change Collaborative (2017)

Peer Reviewer, Association of Experiential Education, North American Association of Environmental Education, Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, American Educational Research Association

Hauk, M. (2017). The new “Three R’s” in an age of climate change: Reclamation, resilience, and regeneration as possible approaches for climate-responsive environmental and sustainability education. Journal of Sustainability Education, 8(1).

Hauk, M. (2013, July). The Earth beyond sustaining: Assessing and designing for regeneration by developing the Transdisciplinary Regenerativity Index [Paper and presentation with published abstract]. Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences Conference, 2013. Portland, Oregon. *

Hauk, M. (2013, July). Leaf, fire, river, hive, and storm: Catalyzing regenerative education in small group collaboration through complex ecological fractals [Paper and presentation with published abstract]. Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences Conference, 2013. Portland, Oregon. * http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2013/abstracts.pdf

Hauk, M. & Bloomfield, V. (2013, April). Blanking out whiteness: Decolonizing impoverishing systems of domination, connecting with ancestral place cultures for reinhabitation. [Paper and presentation, paper published in online proceedings]. Paper presented at the 2013 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Conference Theme: Education and Poverty: Theory, Research, Policy, and Praxis. San Francisco, California. For the Environmental Education Special Interest Group, on the Theme of “With/And Indigenous.” Retrieved from the AERA Online Paper Repository.*

Hauk, M. (2012, May). “WWGD”: What Would Gaia Do: Gaian methods researching as the earth – Planetary qualitative methods. [Paper to be published in proceedings.] For the 2012 National Conference for a panel on Qualitative Methods for the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology in San Francisco, California.*

Leetch, A., & Hauk, M. (2016, October). A decade of Earth in the mix: A state of the field analysis of emergent scholarly research on sustainability education, environmental psychology, and ecopsychology. Paper for the 3rd World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities (WSSD-U-2016). MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.* (Accepted)

Hauk, M. (2015, October). Designing and assessing climate justice education: Spectrum of inclusive resilience [Research poster]. Conference theme: Building a Stronger and More Inclusive Movement. Forty-fourth annual conference of the North American Association of Environmental Education, Research Symposium. San Diego, California.*

Mitten, D. & Hauk, M. (2015, October). Starting up sustainability: Research processes with ecosocial incubators [Paper]. Conference theme: Building a Stronger and More Inclusive Movement. Forty-fourth annual conference of the North American Association of Environmental Education, Research Symposium. San Diego, California.*

Hauk, M. (2014, October). Earthflow regenerating hope, innovation, and agency for planetary flourishing [Research presentation]. Part of a rapid-fire panel of the Hope Research Collaborative on Hope and Sustainability Agency entitled “Sustainability and Agency: What’s hope got to do with it?” Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. Conference theme: Innovation for Sustainable Economies and Communities. Portland, Oregon.*

Hauk, M. (2013, July 26). The Earth beyond sustaining: Assessing and designing for regeneration by developing the Transdisciplinary Regenerativity Index [Paper and presentation with published abstract]. Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences Conference, 2013. Portland, Oregon.* http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2013/abstracts.pdf

Hauk, M. (2013, July 26). Leaf, fire, river, hive, and storm: Catalyzing regenerative education in small group collaboration through complex ecological fractals [Paper and presentation with published abstract]. Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences Conference, 2013. Portland, Oregon.* http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2013/abstracts.pdf

Hauk, M. et al. (2013, April). Arts based educational research on the edge and over [Conference, co-organizer and presenter]. American Educational Research Association, Arts Based Educational Research Special Interest Group. California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California.